Alfrey v. Colbert
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals in the Indian Territory. Appeal from the Supreme Court of Oklahoma, as Successor of the United States Court of Appeals in the Indian Territory.
1Opinion of the Court
HOOK, Circuit Judge.
Perry Colbert, by his next friend, James Colbert, sued R. J. Alfrey and G'. D. Carl for the cancellation of a deed conveying 120 acres of land in the Indian Territory which had been allotted to him as a citizen of the Creek Nation in the distribution of the tribal property by the Dawes Commission* He is a freedman without Indian blood, and the land in controversy did not embrace his homestead. The grounds for cancellation were that complainant was a minor when the deed was executed, was without contractual mental capacity, and was induced by defendants to part with his…
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